GRAN CONCIERTO DE PIANO

a cargo del conocido pianista ADOLF PLA

el miércoles 4 de marzo a las 19.00 horas
Lugar: Sala del Conservatorio

Konservatorion sali - Ruoholahdentori 6

con las siguientes obras del compositor Federico Mompou (1893-1987):
 

Reservas de billete:  Rafael Dovalo, tel. 040 836 2725
o por correo electrónico:  E-mail al presidente del Club
 

Flecha roja: Conservatorio, Ruoholahdentori 6

ADOLF PLA GARRIGÓS (Biografía)

Pianist and conductor. Professor at the Catalonia High School of Music. His performances have been enormously well received by the critics.

He has studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Barcelona by Professor Miquel Farré, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest by Professors Rádos Ferenc and Nádor György, and at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg by Professor Peter Hollfelder, getting his MasterklassenDiplom. In Germany he was awarded by the Robert Wagner Foundation and he was the piano winner of MasterKlassen Students Competition.

Having already won a range of first prizes for his performance in Spain, he was chosen to represent Spain at the First European Meeting for Young Performers in 1985.

Since then, he has given piano, chamber music recitals and performed with orchestras in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has been invited to international festivals to perform in concert halls such as the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Concert Hall of the RTV in Luxembourg, the Glinka Concert Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Gran Teatro in La Habana, the Centro de Belem in Lisboa, the Auditorio Nacional in Costa Rica, Instituto Cervantes of Beijing, METU University of Ankara, amongst others.

He has conducted the Orquestra Nacional d’Andorra, the Orquesta Nacional de Bolivia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Caracas and the Barcino Ensemble.

He has many recordings as well as productions for radio and television in a range of European and America countries. In Spain, we would draw particular attention to his 2001 production for Canal Clásico Digital, in collaboration with the flautist Bernat Castillejo, which was broadcast in America by satellite,

Often he is invited to offer lectures like “Mompou, the music of silence” and about Spanish music at the Rimski Korsakov Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Conservatorio Superior de Montevideo, Universidad de Aveiro, University of Brasilia, among others.

Discography

“Schumann, Granados and Ravel recital” La mà de Guido 1996

“Manen, Oltra i Toldrà” La mà de Guido 1998 (Prix of Fundació Caixa Sabadell)

“Goya, six unpleasant pieces for 10 soloists” La mà de Guido 2000 – Ricard Lamote de Grignon Barcino Ensemble. Adolf Pla conductor

“Passeggiata” Ars harmònica 2000 – Lieder Camera Chor – Haydn, Schubert, Wolf, Reger, Bartók, Debussy.

“Cançons sobre poemes de Joan Oliver, Pere Quart” Ars Harmònica 2001. Music of Cases, Guzmán, Brotons, Balsach, Casablancas, Guix, Pladevall, Estapé, Capellas and García Morante.

“Mompou, Cants màgics” La mà de Guido 2004.

“Homenatge a Ricard Lamote de Grignon” La mà de Guido 2009 – Orchestra Works. Orchestra Terrassa 48. Adolf Pla, conductor

Critique CD – American Record Guide – Sullivan

May 01, 2004 MOMPOU: Piano Pieces / Adolf Pla--LMG 2050--69 minutes

Combining Spanish sultriness and French perfume, the piano works of Federico Mompou have a languid poetry in Cants Magics and child-like purity in Scenes d'Enfants. A minor composer Mompou may be, but he is hard to resist. The notes quote him as saying "it is important to study the quality of the sound that lies between the notes". He also believes that playing "note by note" rather than "phrase by phrase" gets to "the secret font of emotion".

Adolf Pla enacts this philosophy in performances of exceptional care, probity, and intimacy, aided by round, rich piano sound. Margaret Barela admired Anita Pontremoli's recent Mompou album on Centaur (J/F 2003) but wished for more "contrast" and less grayness. Although subtlety is his forte, Pla offers plenty of tonal variety within Mompou's supremely civilized limitations. He has a seductive gentleness just right for this aesthetic.

He has developed and performed interdisciplinary artistic productions with great success of public and critic. The production “Mompou” has been performed in 18 countries and at this moment is on tour through Europe.

Review of the artistic production “The sound of light, Gaudí and Mompou” – Gabriela Dumay, Mexico 2007

(…) A new proposal of a “sonorous” exhibition and a visual concert…, a wonderful expression from Barcelona, with love.

Adolf Pla:  apla@em-art.net  / + 34 93 679 83 61 69

Commentaries for the concert

All the works you will listen are short pieces performed together. Every tone and every sound are essential.

SUBURBIS

We will listen the work Suburbis – Suburbs, music with sounds of the Barcelona streets and its environment. The people from the slums –the Gipsies- It was Barcelona in the beginning of XX century.

CANTS MAGICS

Magic songs gives us a magical atmosphere. Reality and un reality go together. The contraries make up the Unity in harmony. As the indications of the score: energy-calm, , near-far…

SCENES D’ENFANTS

Children Scenes We will listen and see the Mediterranean light through the children play. The piano sound of Mompou is the light of Mediterranean sea. This light and its colours are given to us innocence and simplicity.

CHARMES

Next work Charmes are six short pieces which to invoke a spiritual subjects like the primitive music. “To be original ti means to go to the origin, the beginning”. The Mompou art come from the most original tradition, the primitive tradition. The materials, the rhythms and the structure of this music are a way to begin again..

MÚSICA CALLADA (2nd cahier)

After see Barcelona , magical means, Mediterranean light and primitive art, Mompou shows us their great and sublime spiritual magnitude. The most important Mompou work is Música callada (Music in silence… been quiet). This name is choose from a poem by the Spanish mystic of the XVI Century San Juan de la Cruz . This music is a kind of meditation.

“I invite you to meditate all together!”

Thank you very much
Adolf Pla